Celebrate the history and future of public health education, practice, and research at Pitt Public Health during a grand celebration. This one exciting weekend will mark 70 years since our founding, our second-ever all-classes alumni reunion, and a building rededication ceremony recognizing the completion of the six-year, over $70 million “Building for a Healthier World” renovation and expansion project. Join alumni, past and present faculty, current students, and supporters of the school in proudly celebrating 70 years of public health leadership! #Celebrate70 @PittPubHealth

Alumni Awards

The school’s alumni awards are the highest honor given to alumni. in recognition of significant contributions to the field, the school, or both. Each year, outstanding alumni are chosen to be recognized in one of the following categories:

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARDS FOR...
PRACTICE: for significant contribution to public health practice.
RESEARCH: for a significant contribution to research.
TEACHING AND DISSEMINATION: for significant contribution to education and dissemination, either in the classroom or in the field.

THE MARGARET F. GLONINGER SERVICE AWARD for a significant contribution to the school or greater community through volunteer service. This award was established in honor of the late Margaret Fitzgerald Gloninger (MSHyg ’66), Pitt Public Health graduate and former faculty member in maternal and child health.

THE EARLY CAREER EXCELLENCE AWARD for significant achievements early in the alum's career.

Recent Alumni Honorees

Eric Hulsey is manager of behavioral health analytics in the Allegheny County Department of Human Services (DHS) Office of Data Analysis, Research and Evaluation. In this role, he is responsible for working with key partners to evaluate behavioral health services administered by DHS and find practical applications for research, as well as for managing all research activities, implementation, and reporting efforts; designing and developing quanti...

Mary Ganguli is professor of psychiatry and neurology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and professor of epidemiology at Pitt Public Health. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of late-life mental disorders, particularly neurocognitive disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease. She is the principal investigator of several National Institute on Aging (NIA)-funded, population-based investigations in the area of dementia and Al...

Tammy Haley is director of nursing and radiological sciences, associate professor of nursing, and coordinator of the RN-BSN program in the Division of Biological and Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, where she has been a member of the nursing faculty since 2003. She teaches Physical Examination and Health Promotion and Community Health Nursing at the BSN level and teaches at all levels of the ASN program, in both the c...

Annette Fetchko currently serves as the regional manager for the Center for Inclusion Health (CIH), a division of the Department of Medicine at Allegheny Health Network (AHN), with a mission to provide outstanding health care to all people in the region served by AHN, especially socially marginalized and vulnerable populations. Fetchko oversees the operational and strategic development of the programs within CIH.
Prior to her role at CIH, Fet...

Laura B. Gieraltowski is serving as a lieutenant commander with the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) for which she is a epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Emerging and Infectious Zoonotic Diseases, Division of the Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases’ Outbreak Response and Prevention Branch (ORPB). She regularly leads teams of public health professiona...